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Old May 28, 2009, 08:18 PM   #26
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Scoop as much off the top as you can, shake, and shoot.

1/3 of 1% is nothing.

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You'll likely see more variance between lot numbers of the same powder than you will with this combination. (You're likely to not notice at all)
I agree with FrankenMauser
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Old May 28, 2009, 09:49 PM   #27
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load and shoot as normal. if you are really concerned drop your load by a grain. the max loads of the 2 powders are about the same.
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Old May 28, 2009, 09:54 PM   #28
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I would use it. I believe Frankenmauser stated it correctly.
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Old May 28, 2009, 10:56 PM   #29
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negligible - use it !
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Old May 29, 2009, 12:23 AM   #30
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Probably should send the powder to me for quality control testing.
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Old May 29, 2009, 07:31 AM   #31
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Just blend it in and don't worry about it.
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Old May 29, 2009, 07:38 AM   #32
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I'm with Mike Irwin

If you can seewhere the different powders are, scoop out a whole lot around the contaminents (even if you waste a fair bit of good stuff) then use it, but I wold stay away from max loads, when you can get more, dump that lot
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Old May 29, 2009, 07:44 AM   #33
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Friend of mine dumped the entire contents of a powder measure in the wrong can, giving a mixture of Varget and AA2520. I found him a laboratory testing sieve that would screen out the extruded from the ball. It made a good but not perfect separation as variations in granule size left a trace of each in the other. Shot fine, though.

So the question here is do you punish yourself by throwing away some hard-to-get powder or do you take a lesson from it and go shooting?
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Old May 29, 2009, 10:39 AM   #34
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Send it to me and I'll use it.
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Old May 31, 2009, 12:23 PM   #35
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Thanks for all the replies guys. I think I'll take that advice and dilute it further. Luckily I have a friend that works in a gun shop that can still get me varget from time to time. I don't ever run max loads but i'll take my tests down to minimum. I'm going to try to separate it first but if that doesn't work i'm going to try that. I was thinking that same thing about the hopper. I've loaded varget after H335 and never had an issue. I definitely learned never to have two containers on the bench.
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Old May 31, 2009, 04:12 PM   #36
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If you are not sure what you have and or mixed the powder, Never reload with mixed powders, Toss it! Better to see the green grass from the nitrogen in the powder than be below it looking up from your grave! Do not take a chance with gun powder you could also hurt the person you are shooting next to!
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Old June 1, 2009, 11:38 AM   #37
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What happened to me.....

You will live or die on the decisions you make in life so be wise about it. I once mixed some W-231 with Unique several years ago and it may have been 10% 231. Since the maximum load for either one only differed by one grain, I mixed it thoroughly and loaded 8.0 in my .45 Colt and ended up with some of the most accurate loads ever. In your case I kinda like the sieve idea.......
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Old June 1, 2009, 04:03 PM   #38
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what to do?

Send me the powder and I will gladly conduct seversl tests and return the unused portion to you .
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Old June 1, 2009, 05:13 PM   #39
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Old June 1, 2009, 05:53 PM   #40
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Question for you?

Is your life or eyesight worth $20.00?
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Old June 1, 2009, 06:26 PM   #41
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If thats all you got in there and your sure of it, mix it up and shoot it, you'll never know.
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Old June 1, 2009, 07:11 PM   #42
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Is your life or eyesight worth $20.00?
It's not that drastic a choice, no way! I gave the sieve solution as a way to separate the powders. If it were me, I'd simply load it like it was varget. My only worry would be the tendacy of a small roundish powders tendacy to sift through the extruded powder to settle on the bottom of the powder measure. You'd probably get 3-5 shells with most of the H-335 in them, then the rest with mostly varget.

Since the two powders are nearly the same burning rate, you're NOT going to be blowing anything up! Inconsistant loads would be the only result.
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Old June 1, 2009, 07:26 PM   #43
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I'm thinking after I try to separate them I'm going to do each shell individually from a powder trickler. I thought about what snuffy was saying about it settling to the bottom. By visually inspecting each portion I can be pretty sure that I'm not endangering myself. I don't ever load to max either. If I felt like this was enough of an issue to injure myself or destroy a gun I wouldn't even consider it. I just don't see this much powder having that type of effect.
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Old June 2, 2009, 06:33 AM   #44
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I'd load and shoot. But that's just me.
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